eBay setup guide — Easy TCG Lister

The short version

Connect your eBay account, then click “Set up eBay” on the Store Connections page. We create your shipping, payment, and return policies for you — no policy IDs to copy, nothing to configure on eBay by hand. If eBay needs its one manual step (payment verification), the app shows you a button straight to the right eBay page and continues automatically when you're done.

Brand new to eBay? Activate your account first (one-time)

eBay requires you to register as a seller on their site before any app can list for you — that part we genuinely can't do for you. The good news: it's quick, and you don't have to set up shipping yourself — we do that. All you need to do on eBay:

Open My eBay → Selling and click List an item → Get started — this is just how eBay opens seller registration; you don't have to finish the listing.
Verify your phone with the code eBay texts you.
Link a bank account or debit/credit card so eBay can pay you out (managed payments). This is the one step eBay won't let you skip.
Set your ship-from address at eBay → Account → Addresses, so eBay knows where you ship from.

Then stop there — you don't need to publish that listing or build a shipping policy by hand. Come back, click Set up eBay, and we create your payment, return, and shipping policies on your account for you.

Skipped this and ran setup anyway? No problem — setup detects it, shows an “Open eBay payments setup” button that takes you to exactly the right page, and an “I've finished — continue setup” button that picks up where it left off. No starting over.

Stuck? eBay's own walkthrough: Registering as a seller →

Step 1 — Connect eBay

On the Store Connections page, click Connect eBay and sign in. This links your account so the app can create listings on your behalf. You can disconnect anytime.

Step 2 — One-click setup

Click Set up automatically. Here’s exactly what we create on your eBay account:

Shipping — standard: USPS Ground Advantage — the buyer pays eBay’s calculated rate (real cost by package weight + distance), or a simple flat rate if your eBay account’s shipping isn’t fully activated yet — plus 1 business-day handling.
Shipping — cheap tier: eBay Standard Envelope for items $20 and under* — a tracked, low-cost envelope service for cards. Listings use it automatically for cheaper cards and Ground Advantage for everything else.
Payment: immediate payment (managed payments).
Returns: no returns by default (changeable under Customize).

We also detect your ship-from location from your eBay account. If we can’t, we’ll simply ask for your ZIP code.

*eBay only allows eBay Standard Envelope on qualifying trading cards valued $20 or under — that’s an eBay rule, not ours. Pricier cards automatically use Ground Advantage.

Want different settings? Use “Customize”

Click Customize under the setup button to change:

The eBay Standard Envelope price for cheaper cards (or make it free and absorb the cost). Standard shipping on pricier cards is eBay-calculated (or flat-rate if your account’s shipping isn’t fully set up yet).
Whether to offer the eBay Standard Envelope cheap tier at all.
Handling time (1–3 business days).
Whether to accept 30-day returns.

Re-running setup is always safe — it updates your existing policies in place instead of creating duplicates. And if you already had your own eBay policies before using Easy TCG Lister, setup reuses them rather than creating a parallel set.

Shipping cheat-sheet (if eBay ever asks you)

We set all of this for you automatically — but if one of eBay's own screens ever asks, here's what the choices mean in plain English.

Flat vs calculated (“cost type”). Flat = one fixed price every buyer pays. Calculated = eBay works out the cost from the package weight and how far it’s going. We use calculated USPS Ground Advantage for cards over $20 (the buyer pays the real cost), and a flat eBay Standard Envelope rate for cards $20 and under.

The two services we use (domestic / USA):

eBay Standard Envelope — the cheap, tracked option for single cards worth $20 or less. It must be a flat envelope: max ¼ inch thick, 3 oz, and it has to bend (a card in a sleeve + toploader inside a plain flat mailer). Bubble mailers aren’t allowed on this service.
USPS Ground Advantage — tracked, for everything else: pricier cards, or anything in a bubble mailer. Priced by weight and distance.

How USPS pricing works (weight tiers). You pay the same price within a weight tier until the package tips past the next threshold — so 1 card and 3 cards in the same envelope often cost exactly the same. Rough guide:

eBay Standard Envelope: ≈ $0.74 up to 1 oz · $1.03 up to 2 oz · $1.32 up to 3 oz (rates as of mid-2025; eBay updates these).
One card in a sleeve + toploader in a flat envelope ≈ 1 oz.
A card in a bubble mailer ≈ 3 oz — over the envelope’s ¼-inch limit, so it ships Ground Advantage.

International. You can ignore it to start. If you want overseas buyers, turn on eBay International Shipping — you ship to a U.S. hub and eBay handles the customs, label, and the rest, so you never deal with international rates yourself.

Troubleshooting

“eBay wouldn’t let the app create policies.” Your account usually just needs to opt into Business Policies once. Go to eBay → Business Policies, click Opt in, then run Set up automatically again.

“Your eBay account isn’t set up to sell.” Finish seller registration at eBay seller onboarding, then come back.

“Setup created my payment and return policies, but not shipping.” Almost always this means eBay hasn’t finished activating your seller account (payments) — complete that one step when setup prompts you, then click “I’ve finished — continue setup.” If shipping still won’t create, you can build it yourself: go to eBay → Business policies and create two shipping profiles — eBay Standard Envelope for cards $20 and under, and USPS Ground Advantage for everything else — then come back and click Pull from eBay to import them.

Already have policies on eBay? Use Pull from eBay on the Store Connections page to import your existing ones instead.